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gaat can To all whom 'it may concern:

BENTLEY C. BIBB, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Laim Patent No. 92,781, ma Juzg 2o, 1869.

FIRE-PLACE HEATER.

bw-f- Be it known that I, BENTLEY 0. BIBB, of the city and county ofBaltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a new anduseful'Improvement on Fire- Place Heaters; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof',reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of a lire-placeheater, having my improvement applied to it.

Figure 2 is a diametrical section through the upper portion of theheater, showing thewater-evaporating pan, applied to the screen at thetop of the heater.

Figure 3 is a top viewof the top of the heater, indicating the `screenmoved to one side, and exposing the feed-opening.

Figure 4 is a view of the screen and tached nom its heater.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in theseveraliigures.

This invention consists in attaching to the inner, or bottom lside of aperforated movable screen for the top cfa fire-place heater, anevaporating-pan, sc that this pan and screen can be moved together whenaccess is its pan, de-

ldesired to the top plate of the heater, and so that the pan will not beexposed to view when the screen is adjusted on the top of the heater, aswill be 4hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I willdescribe its construction and opd 'e1-ation.

"Ihe fire-place heater, which I have represented in accompanyingdrawings, has afeed-passage, a, leading through -the top plate C intothe upper end of the magazine B, through which passage fuel can beconveniently supplied to the magazine.

It will be seen, by reference to iig. 2, that the passage a. is madethrough the front or exposed part of the top plate C, outside of thefront'plate D, and that this passage is closed by a tightly-fittingcover b,

which will prevent the escape of smoke and gases into the room.

Over that portion of the top plate C which is exposed in front of thefront plate D, a perforated screen,

E, is arranged, for the purpose of hiding from view the platefO andcover b, and also for ornamenting the top of the heater.

This screen E is preferably made of the form of the segment of a sphere,and hinged or pivoted to the upper portion of the heater, so that it canbe swung off and on the'top C without detaching it therefrom.y

In iigs. l and 2, the screen E is represented as covering the top C ofthe heater, and hiding from view the cover to the feed-passage, and infig. 3 the screen is represented in a position for exposing the top10and feed-passage cover.

A 'single screen is represented in the drawings for covering the top ofthe heater, but, if desired, two sections may be adopted, and hinged soas to swing either horizontally or vertically.

To the inner or concave side of the perforated screen E,'a pan, F, issuitably secured in a horizontal posi-- tion for containing water forevaporation;

This pan can be conveniently supplied with water when thc screen E isswung off the top ofthe heater,

.as shown in iig. 3, and,` when the screen is adjusted over the topofthe heater, the pan is not exposed to view.

' -Thus arranged, the pan F will be out of sight and out of the way, andthe vapor rising from it during the operation of the heater will escapethrough the perforated screen into the room, or, when the hot-air tineleading to an upper apartment is open, the vapor will ascend throughsaid flue.

I do not claim, under these Letters Patent, a perforated screen appliedto the top of a heater, nor dov I claim a fuel-feed passage leadingthrough the top of a fire-.place heat-er.

What I claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A movable evaporating-vessel and a movable screen, combined and appliedto the top of a heater, substantially as described.

' BENTLEY C. BIBB.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. COOKE, WM. H. BAYZAND.

